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clipper
/ˈklɪp.ɚ/
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What does clipper mean?
noun
- Anything or anyone that clips.
- A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
- Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.
More meanings (9)
noun
- (informal) An Alberta clipper.
- An Asian butterfly of species Parthenos sylvia, family Nymphalidae.
- A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
- (slang) A confidence trickster; a conman.
- (historical) A person who mutilates coins by fraudulently paring the edges.
- (obsolete, slang) Anything showy or first-rate.
verb
- To cut or style (the hair) using clippers.
proper noun
- A surname from German.
- An unincorporated community in Whatcom County, Washington, United States.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈklɪp.ɚ/
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The Tweed had been a wooden vessel, and he brought the tradition of quick passages with him into the iron clipper.
The hills around Clipper Gap are gay and white with chaparral blossom, which gives the whole landscape a pleasant, gala-day appearance.
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Carrie proceeded to get the “Clipper,” and tried to find the agents by looking over it as she stood beside the stand.
Involuntarily the names of Naxos, Tenedos, and Carpathos, rise before the mind, and we seek vainly for Ulysses’ vessel or the “clipper” of the Argonauts.
It has a noble situation, and I saw from it a clipper ship of the very largest class, coming through the Gate, under her fore-and-aft sails.